A woman enters a cafe only to find its diners in complete silence. Then… a man breaks into song. It’s a surprising, genre-bending film nominated for an Oscar in 2004.
The Portable Film Festival, an online festival with a number of categories from short films to music videos to art films, has just wrapped up and announced this year’s winners. Previous…
Showcase of the 10 best short films from 2010—animation, action, drama, sci-fi—watch them all.
The Oscar-nominated animation about a journey across the geographic and cultural landscape of Madagascar.
Separated by the sea, a unique duo pass along details of their lives through a bottle. An elegiac animation of minimalist perfection.
So in my rush to post the new PES film, I failed to realize it was just one in a series of top-notch releases by the premium cable giant, featuring…
It’s Christmas time and the zombies are out tearing into helpless co-workers in this innovative film shot entirely in the first-person.
Zombies are taking over the world but this clueless group of slackers is more interested in video games and the girl next door in this Horror/Comedy.
Forbidden love sets off a wild chase between a deer-headed teenager and his girlfriend’s hunting father in this illustrative, action-packed film from Supinfocom students.
Action-packed homage to the childhood games of yesteryear led by a shirtless avenger in boxers.
The Doorpost Project is the best online film competition out there. I realize that might not be saying much as the web is lousy with short film competitions. And I…
David O’Reilly (the creator behind Please Say Something, one of my favorite films of this year) has a new film The External World that has done well at festivals…
One of my personal favorite shorts, Soft, by British director Simon Ellis has come home to the internet. I reviewed the film in 2008, however the article at that…
Things get tense as a young boy struggles to accept his father’s disability.
An experimental look at the beautiful juxtaposition of technology and the body.
I watched a ton of skate and surf movie as a kid growing up in the hotbed of alternative sports culture, Southern California. I was an accomplished if not…
A female warrior battles an unstoppable foe in this sci-fi film from Ghost in the Shell creator Mamoru Oshii with an ending that’s difficult to explain.
Reporter, Holly Malone, is out to bring down drug lord, Dancoolo, and break the story of her career. It’s a fan film masterpiece with the perfect mix of wacky characters, memorable one-liners, and over-the-top effects.
A heart-breaking tale of love and loss told through a sequence of snapshots.
A triptych of personal stories recounted in the first person, Lies is a remarkable and profound series of animated vignettes dramatizing “lies”—ones we make to strangers, ones we tell to those we love, and the ones we use to convince ourselves.
We like reading up on animation festivals because more often than not you can find several of the winning short films online already. Ottawa International Animation Festival is North America’s…
A teenager learns to cope socially with his brothers’ disability.
More and more filmmakers are approaching us looking to get their film in front of a large online audience. And these recommendations are becoming a bigger portion of the films…
When a sensitive cowboy loses faith in this dark world, it takes a bit of kindness to bring him back.
